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| UK Counter-Terrorism Program Flags Shakespeare and ‘1984’ for ‘Encouraging Far-Right Sympathies’ |
| 2023-02-21 |
| Getting people to look into their distant past during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, begin to understand how fucked up the Wakandans anti history sentiments are. [PJMedia] The UK’s Prevent program, which is supposed to be protecting the Sceptered Isle from terrorism, recently came under fire for treating actual Islamic terrorism as if it were a mental illness. But that doesn’t mean that Prevent has been wanting for terrorists: like its counterparts in the FBI, it has kept busy looking for “far-right extremists” and has now published a helpful guide to spotting those dangerous right-wingers. It turns out that they’re people who read Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, 1984, and other great works of English literature. Gee, you’d almost get the idea that the Leftist culture warriors who control Prevent, Britain as a whole, and the U.S. as well, want to destroy the civilization of which those works and writers are a hallmark. And you’d be right. Prevent casts a wide net. The UK’s Daily Mail reported Friday that among the “potential signs of far-Right extremism” and “key texts” for “white nationalists/supremacists” that Prevent flagged were the “comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.” And much more: “A report by Prevent’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) described how far-Right extremists promoted ‘reading lists’ on online bulletin boards.” These include “The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1984 by George Orwell and the poems of GK Chesterton. It also referenced films including The Bridge On The River Kwai, The Great Escape and Zulu.” Other books, shows and films on Prevent’s list included that bane of freshmen literature majors everywhere, Beowulf, and other monumental works including Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts marveled: “This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education.” Read the rest at the link Related: Prevent program: 2015-12-27 Muslims 'stay silent' on extremism tip-off scheme Prevent program: 2011-06-08 UK security revamp aims to uproot Islamist threat Prevent program: 2011-06-07 UK security revamp aims to uproot Islamist threat Related: Far-right extremist: 2023-01-28 Meta takes Ukraine's controversial Azov Regiment off its dangerous organizations list Far-right extremist: 2023-01-11 Actual Nazis visit Israel. Corporate media doesn't raise an eyebrow. Far-right extremist: 2022-12-14 Celebrity chef whose daughter is girlfriend of Real Madrid soccer star said among German coup plot suspects |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 Oh yes, Orwell a man of the far right. After three generations of indoctrination and stupidity, they are bold enough to say virtually anything. |
| Posted by: KBK 2023-02-21 21:13 |
| #3 I was subverted by Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was the donkey. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-02-21 13:39 |
| #2 Wait till they read the Declaration of Independence. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-02-21 07:19 |
| #1 Yes, classic literature and theater really are the enemy. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-02-21 01:06 |